The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-02-11

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ascertained, are:
Ed. F. Dillon, Dartmouth.
8. 8. Westcott, Burlington.
Frank L. Wesson, Springfield.
ID. Margnet, Schanigen, Que.
Edward Banks, brakeman, of Lebanon,
Nh
Miss Nancy Dun bar, of Porters Station,
Somer"ilie, Mass.
Mason Mills, Of Iroqueis, Ont.
John Hadden, 6oloredj porter of the
Pullman Pilgrim.
Mr.: Henry ". Tewksbury. the lecturer;
says he was doing when he W as aroused
by feeling the humping on the ties and the
car seemed to leap into space and come
down with terrible crash. For moment
he was stunned and hardly knew whether
he was dead or alive. He tried to move,
but found he could not bulge an inch,
He noticed with great alarm that fire had
broken out at the farther end of the car,
He stru ggled with all his strength to free
himself, and screamed for help.
Despite his own anxiety he could not
help noticing old couple a few seats
from him who were tied down by timbers,
while the flames rapidly approached.
The last he saw of them they were locked
in each others arms and were kissin Q
each other fond goodbye on this ear
Then the smoke and flames enveloped
Gu6n ana ma Unom from view.
Alr. Tew6sbury gave himself up for lost,
and covered his face with his fur cap to
shut out the approaching flames. His
hopes of life were suddenly renewed by
hearing voices. He threw off the cap and
saw the engineer and fremen near by;
They answered his frantic calls and tried
to pub him out, but failing to do so were
about to leave him; when he begged OF
them to try again, and break his legs il
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get him out by breaking his leg and arm.
They were just in time, as the flames had
already corched his clothing.
Br. Bray tells heartrending story of the
death of Edward Frank Dillon, of Spring
field, Vt, who was a student of Dartmouth
College, and who had more than a local
reputation as a base ball pitcher. He was
! travelling with a friend named Veasey.
Both were pinned down by the wreckage,
and conversed together. The fire burned
beam away from Veazy, and he got out,
People congregated about poor Dillon and
tried to release him, but car wheels and
other material lay on his breast He
talked to those near him. He knew his
hour had come, and sent a message to his
mother, saying how he died. His last
thoughts were of her and the sorrow his
death would cause her, and he asked her
to bear up under the trial The flames
came nearer. AS the fire reached him he
gave one last cry; and closed his eyes IN
death. In the presence of at least a score
of men he was burned to death
A farmer living near the scene was
awakened by the sharp call for brakes
| from the locomotive and could distinctly
| hear the crash of the falling cars on the
ice He Ee~sily dressed and went to the
wreck searing it he stun bled over
the / woman who had beer
draggees &zcr the wreck and left for dead
and on making exam nations found hel
still alive. He went and got his team and
took her to his home and thus saved one
life.
Mr.. Dunbar, of Boston, came on here
and identified the body of his sister, the
only means of Identification being a swoL
len finger joint and a peculiar shape Of the
feet.
Miss Lowell whose brother-in-law, Mr.:
| Wesson, was killed, was not much hurt;
After she got to the junction House, which
is being used as hospital, she forgot her
grief in the sorrow of the others, and set
about relieving the sufferers. She was d
most welcome visitor at their belsides.
Mrs. Graham was the most seriously in
jured of those at the hotel. Her spine is
injured.
The following are additional names Of
killed:
Cephas Mills, of Iroquois, Ont.
A young girl named Boulander, of Hol.
yoke.
A. J. Hammer, of Boston, Pullman por-
ter.
Unknown Pullman porter
Edgar Wilder, of Dayton, Ohio.
Charles w. Sandford, of Lowell, Mass,
probably.
Mrs. Devineau, of Winosky.
OVER SIXTY KILLED.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, Vt, Feb. T.
One of the wrecked cars on the ice had
not been overhauled at last accounts, and
it was thought that at least twenty bodies
were in the debris. Should this prove 50
it would run the list of killed up to over
sixty, not including those which may have
been carried into the river through the
ice. The latest computation as to the
number of persons on the train places it
at over one hundred